Gustav Regler

Gustav Regler (25 May 1898-14 January 1963) was a German revolutionary and the political commissar of the Garibaldi Brigade during the Spanish Civil War.

Biography
Gustav Regler was born on 25 May 1898 in Merzig, German Empire, and he served in the Imperial German Army during World War I, being seriously injured during the war. He befriended the writer Ernest Hemingway while the two of them were in Spain during the 1930s, and Regler became a communist revolutionary leader and the political commissar of the Garibaldi Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. After the war, he moved to the Soviet Union, but he fell out of favor with Stalin's Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later moved to Mexico. He lived in Tepoztlan, Mexico, and he died during a trip to India in 1963.